Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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I would like to live long enough to see the day when people talk about which guns are the safest.
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Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
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Harry Dresden: Tequila? Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne.Bob: Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?Harry Dresden: Uh, I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result.
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We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
